Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.